Administrative/Biographical History

Francis Pierrepont Barnard (1854-1931) was an archaeologist, historian and numismatist. Details are given in
Who Was Who.

Scope and Content

Heraldic manuscripts, consisting of:

A 17th-century transcript of 'The manner of proceedings in a case of arms betweene John Lord Louell
and Thomas Lord Morleys before the Constable and Marshall. Anno 1395 [recte 1385]', with notes by Barnard and a
pedigree compiled by Sir Charles G. Young

Translation of Nicholas Upton, 'De studio militari', made by John Blount 'studens in the vniuersite of
Oxforthe' at the command of William Blount, 4th Baron Mountjoy. Copied, and illustrated with emblazoned coats of
arms, by two mid-16th-century scribes, and annotated from the Latin original and paginated in a third
16th-century hand

Transcripts, mainly in Barnard's hand, of English works on heraldry, with glossaries

Draft of 'A discourse upon cadency' by James Cotes, 18th century, incomplete at end, with an index in a
different hand

'The general armory of the Netherlands', compiled from manuscripts in the British Museum by William
Dickinson for Thomas Culleton, Esq., 19th century

Administrative Information

Immediate Source of Acquisition

The manuscripts were bequeathed to the Library, with two medieval manuscripts, MSS. Lat. misc. e. 86 and
Lat. th. e. 19, by F.P. Barnard in 1931.

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